Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 73 85
Rank change year-on-year -20 +12 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,073 1,840 2,385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 3.69% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 4.13% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,443 892 1,629
10th Percentile £45,456 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -5.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,887 44,584 67,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 89.31% 81.13%
Number of salaries quoted 53,644 25,395 43,808
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 10 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -18 1,816 £75,000 +3.45% 1,215
UK excluding London -32 1,131 £65,000 -7.14% 558
Work from Home -23 894 £65,000 -7.14% 580
London -16 804 £85,000 +3.03% 780
North of England -33 377 £70,000 - 164
South East +25 316 £65,000 -7.14% 156
North West -53 201 £75,000 +7.14% 87
South West -23 131 £57,500 -4.17% 58
Midlands -53 108 £67,500 -1.82% 66
North East +20 96 £65,000 +18.18% 30
Yorkshire -11 80 £65,000 -7.14% 47
West Midlands -35 77 £80,000 +14.29% 38
Northern Ireland -16 62 £60,000 +33.33% 21
Wales -12 59 £68,750 +32.21% 17
East of England -36 46 £60,100 -3.84% 21
Scotland -55 34 £60,000 -24.44% 59
East Midlands -51 30 £64,000 +6.67% 28
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 39 (1.88%) Confluence
2 26 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.77%) Apache
4 15 (0.72%) CMS
5 14 (0.68%) IIS
6 13 (0.63%) Camunda
7 9 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.39%) JBoss
8 8 (0.39%) WordPress
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.14%) DNN
13 3 (0.14%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.24%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.096%) Shopify
6 1 (0.048%) Eikon
6 1 (0.048%) RMDS
6 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,068 (51.52%) AWS
2 891 (42.98%) Azure
3 342 (16.50%) GCP
4 268 (12.93%) Serverless
5 250 (12.06%) GitHub
6 193 (9.31%) SaaS
7 179 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
9 125 (6.03%) Amazon S3
10 111 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 104 (5.02%) GitHub Copilot
12 93 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
13 83 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
14 71 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
15 69 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
16 68 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
17 63 (3.04%) Azure AKS
18 52 (2.51%) PaaS
19 50 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.65%) Broadband
2 26 (1.25%) Network Security
3 14 (0.68%) MQTT
4 13 (0.63%) DMARC
4 13 (0.63%) DNS
5 8 (0.39%) Internet
5 8 (0.39%) VPN
6 7 (0.34%) AMQP
6 7 (0.34%) Firewall
6 7 (0.34%) HTTP
6 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.29%) DHCP
7 6 (0.29%) RFID
7 6 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.19%) LTE
10 3 (0.14%) Modbus
10 3 (0.14%) NAS
10 3 (0.14%) SAN
11 2 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (14.95%) MongoDB
2 234 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
3 203 (9.79%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 160 (7.72%) Elasticsearch
6 125 (6.03%) MySQL
7 120 (5.79%) SQL Server
8 95 (4.58%) Relational Database
9 69 (3.33%) Redis
10 52 (2.51%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.35%) Big Data
13 19 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.72%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.72%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.58%) Db2
15 12 (0.58%) DTS
16 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 269 (12.98%) Git
2 188 (9.07%) GitLab
3 163 (7.86%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.09%) JUnit
5 63 (3.04%) JIRA
6 59 (2.85%) TeamCity
7 45 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 39 (1.88%) Mockito
9 36 (1.74%) Cypress.io
10 33 (1.59%) Claude Code
11 32 (1.54%) Maven
12 24 (1.16%) Selenium
13 22 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 18 (0.87%) CircleCI
15 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
16 15 (0.72%) Postman
16 15 (0.72%) Spock
17 13 (0.63%) JMeter
17 13 (0.63%) REST Assured
18 12 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 520 (25.08%) Finance
2 405 (19.54%) Social Skills
3 217 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 189 (9.12%) Banking
5 152 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 152 (7.33%) Law
6 137 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
7 122 (5.89%) Retail
8 82 (3.96%) Legal
9 64 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 61 (2.94%) Marketing
11 46 (2.22%) Back Office
12 33 (1.59%) Aerospace
13 29 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.35%) Legal Technology
15 24 (1.16%) Games
16 21 (1.01%) Advertising
17 20 (0.96%) Front Office
18 17 (0.82%) Telecoms
19 15 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 762 (36.76%) Developer
2 497 (23.97%) Senior
3 382 (18.43%) Software Engineer
4 344 (16.59%) Lead
5 291 (14.04%) Architect
6 204 (9.84%) .NET Developer
7 181 (8.73%) Senior Developer
8 164 (7.91%) Full-Stack Developer
9 153 (7.38%) Java Developer
10 136 (6.56%) Java Engineer
11 125 (6.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 121 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 105 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
14 100 (4.82%) Principal Engineer
15 83 (4.00%) Software Developer
16 80 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
17 73 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.47%) Lead Developer
19 57 (2.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 55 (2.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 555 (26.77%) .NET
2 442 (21.32%) React
3 423 (20.41%) Node.js
4 348 (16.79%) Spring
5 315 (15.20%) Spring Boot
6 306 (14.76%) RESTful
7 280 (13.51%) REST
8 257 (12.40%) Kafka
9 245 (11.82%) ASP.NET
10 227 (10.95%) .NET Core
11 219 (10.56%) AngularJS
12 214 (10.32%) Vue
13 198 (9.55%) ASP.NET Core
14 117 (5.64%) Blazor
15 105 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web API
16 99 (4.78%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.58%) HTML
18 92 (4.44%) CSS
19 80 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
20 76 (3.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 641 (30.92%) Cloud Native
2 361 (17.41%) Distributed Systems
3 144 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 109 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 104 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (3.62%) Onboarding
7 53 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 47 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 43 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 42 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 40 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
12 37 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (1.74%) Over-the-Top Content
14 32 (1.54%) e-Learning
15 27 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
16 26 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
17 23 (1.11%) Algorithms
17 23 (1.11%) Data Structures
17 23 (1.11%) Management Information System
18 19 (0.92%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 136 (6.56%) Linux
2 50 (2.41%) Windows
3 22 (1.06%) Unix
4 21 (1.01%) CentOS
4 21 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.29%) Android
7 5 (0.24%) AIX
8 4 (0.19%) Debian
8 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.096%) VMS
10 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,083 (52.24%) CI/CD
2 987 (47.61%) Agile
3 745 (35.94%) Software Engineering
4 729 (35.17%) DevOps
5 581 (28.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 509 (24.55%) Mentoring
7 442 (21.32%) Event-Driven
8 438 (21.13%) AI
9 437 (21.08%) Containerisation
10 413 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 413 (19.92%) Test Automation
11 399 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 382 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
13 291 (14.04%) Scrum
14 285 (13.75%) Technical Leadership
15 276 (13.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 254 (12.25%) TDD
17 236 (11.38%) Clean Code
18 227 (10.95%) Architectural Patterns
19 220 (10.61%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 697 (33.62%) Java
2 574 (27.69%) C#
3 508 (24.51%) SQL
4 490 (23.64%) Python
5 466 (22.48%) JavaScript
6 381 (18.38%) TypeScript
7 113 (5.45%) Go
8 54 (2.60%) Ruby
9 46 (2.22%) Scala
10 44 (2.12%) C++
11 42 (2.03%) PHP
12 41 (1.98%) Bash
13 28 (1.35%) PowerShell
14 27 (1.30%) Bicep
15 23 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 22 (1.06%) Rust
17 20 (0.96%) C
17 20 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.63%) Groovy
19 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 287 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 192 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 189 (9.12%) Degree
4 83 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (3.91%) DV Cleared
6 72 (3.47%) AWS Certification
7 44 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.40%) CISSP
9 27 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 17 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.72%) CISM
12 14 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.48%) PhD
14 9 (0.43%) MBA
15 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (10.08%) QA
2 86 (4.15%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (1.78%) GDPR
5 34 (1.64%) WCAG
6 20 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 19 (0.92%) NIST
7 19 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.82%) NCSC
9 15 (0.72%) GRC
10 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.48%) Data Quality
11 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 5 (0.24%) SEPA
16 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 596 (28.75%) Docker
2 34 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 630 (30.39%) Kubernetes
2 363 (17.51%) Terraform
3 111 (5.35%) Ansible
4 96 (4.63%) Grafana
5 54 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.21%) Argo
7 21 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.87%) Puppet
9 17 (0.82%) Kibana
10 13 (0.63%) Cilium
11 8 (0.39%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.24%) Podman
14 4 (0.19%) Packer
15 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
16 2 (0.096%) MIIS
16 2 (0.096%) Opsgenie
16 2 (0.096%) Rancher
17 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
17 1 (0.048%) Istio
Vendors
1 328 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 95 (4.58%) Google
3 67 (3.23%) Oracle
4 39 (1.88%) OpenAI
5 36 (1.74%) Splunk
5 36 (1.74%) Typelevel
6 27 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 23 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 23 (1.11%) IBM
8 21 (1.01%) Databricks
8 21 (1.01%) Okta
9 20 (0.96%) ForgeRock
10 14 (0.68%) OneLogin
10 14 (0.68%) SAP
11 13 (0.63%) Adobe
11 13 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 13 (0.63%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.48%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.39%) OpenText